Bure (cloth)

In ancient Gaul, it was a heavy coarse woolen variety of cloth called ''Bura''. Bure was poor people's cloth in medieval times. Later it was modified to a plain or twilled dress material made with a blended napped fabric made of cotton or hemp yarns in warp and wool on the weft side. Lately, it was made lighter and softer as well.^[1][2][3]

Bureau is a French word, adopted into English, which evolved from the Burel cloth used for covering desks, to mean the desk, then the physical office, then the administrative department.^[4][1]

• Burel (fabric)